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O. L. SOBLEY HUOK Filed Avril 28 1924 WITNESS: ATTORNEY Patented Oct.21, 1924.

UNITED STATES ORSIN IA. SOBLEY, OF ElI-IELSVILLE, ALABAMA.

HOOK.

Application filed April 28, 1924.. Serial No. 709,623.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORSIN L. SoBLny, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ethelsville, in the county of Pickens and State of Alabama,have invented new and useful Improvements in Hooks, of which thefollowing is a specification.

\ This invention relates to a hook device,

the general object of the invention being to provide means for attachinga trace to a single-tree, so that the trace can be easily and quicklydetached from the single-tree whenever desired and even though the traceis under a strain.

This invention also consists in certain other features of constructionand in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to behereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawingsand specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing my invention in detail, reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like 5 orcorresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1is a view showing the invention in use.

Figure 2 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional View through the device.

Figure 3 is a plan view of Figure 2.

In these views, 1 indicates a channelshaped supporting member, which hasa ring 2 pivotally supported at one end thereof by 5 at its outer end,engages the channelshaped part of the member and is normally held insaid member by means of a pin 5 in the bight of the member engaging anotch 6 in the bar and by the L-shaped lever Twhich is pivoted to thebody 1 by the pin 8 and has its short arm arranged to press the baragainst the bight with the pin 5 engaging the recess 6 when said leveris swung downwardly, as shown in full lines in Figure 2. The lever isheld in this position by means of the teats 9 formed on the upper edgesof the channel-shaped body engaging the de= pressions 10 in the lever,the body having a spring action so that the sides can spring apart topermit the lever to be forced from between the sides of the body to aposition shown in dotted lines in Figure 2 which will means of the eye3. A bar 4, having a hookpermit a leaf spring 11 in the body to forceupwardly the rod 4 and thus free the notch 6 therein from the pin 5 inorder to permit. the bar to be pulled from the body. As shown in Figure1, the ring 2 is adapted to be placed on the hook of the single-tree Awhile the hook 5 on bar 4: is adapted to engage the terminal ring of thetrace B. With the lever swung downwardly and holding the bar a inengagement with the pin 5, the trace is firmly connected with thesingletree. If the horses should be mired, for in stance, and the tracesare under strain so that it is impossible to get enough slack to enablethe rings to be detached from the hooks, the lever 7 is swung upwardlyso as to permit the spring 11 to force the bar t upwardly and thus freethe notch 6 therein from the pin 5' so that the strain will pull the bar4 out of the body and thus free the horses from the wagon or otherimplement to which they are attached.

This device is useful inlogging, lumbering and the like where occasionsfrequently arise rendering it. necessary to quickly and easily free thehorses from the single-trees.

It is thought from the foregoing descripi tion that the advantages andnovel features of my invention will be readily apparent.

I desire it to be understood that I may make changes in the constructionand in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, providedthat such changes fall within the scope of the appended claim.

What I claim is z- A. device of the class described comprising a bodyhaving fastening means at one end thereof, a member having fasteningmeans at one end thereof, one part having a notch and the other parthaving a projec tion engaging the notch for preventing movement of themember in the body, a lever pivoted to the body, an extension thereonfor engaging the member for holding the projection in the notch when thelever is in one position but permitting movement of the member to freethe projection from the notch when said lever is in its other position,and spring means for forcing the member upwardly to free the projectionfrom the notch.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ORSIN L. SOBLEY.

